Notes on Empathy is an hour long two-channel media artwork that investigates the shifting meaning of empathy, from its origins in the German concept Einfühlung during the European modernist art movement to its contemporary usage within American political discourse. The videos, audio, and text examine how these evolving definitions of empathy shape, and are shaped by, our relationships to photographic and moving images, as well as broader phenomenological questions of perception, phenomenology, and ethics.

texts are interwoven as fragments with original footage to create a free-associative structure that collapses distinctions between high and low discourse of empathy. Through this layering, the work reflects on how empathy is increasingly mediated by images, and how our understanding of others is formed through the circulation, repetition, and consumption of visual media in digital culture.